Remapping the border: Taxation, territory, and (trans) national identity at the Mexico-Guatemala border

Environment and Planning D: Society and Space

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 822-841

  Galemba, Rebecca B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

Author keywords

Borders; Guatemala; Legality; Mexico; Sovereignty; Transnationalism

Indexed keywords

BORDER REGION; CROSS-BORDER RELATIONS; CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY; GEOPOLITICS; MORALITY; NATION STATE; NATIONAL IDENTITY; SOVEREIGNTY; TAX SYSTEM; TERRITORIAL DELIMITATION;

GUATEMALA [CENTRAL AMERICA]; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA];

EID: 84867771617     PISSN: 02637758     EISSN: 14723433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/d7710     Document Type: Article

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